
Film
The Devil's Elixirs
1973 · 1h 46m · Drama · History
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Overview
Young seminary student Franziskus has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie, whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie.
Cast
Benjamin Besson
Franziskus

Jaroslava Schallerová
Aurelie

Andrzej Kopiczyński
Viktorin

Milena Dvorská
Euphemie

Maja Komorowska
Abbess

Fred Düren

Krzysztof Chamiec

Norbert Christian

Radovan Lukavský

Jürgen Kluckert

Edmund Fetting

Gerhard Bienert

Peter Dommisch

Angela Brunner
Zdena Burdová
Monika Pietsch
Crew
- Ralf KirstenDirector
- Erich SojkaWriter
- Brigitte KirstenWriter
- E. T. A. HoffmannNovel
- Claus NeumannDirector of Photography
- André AsrielOriginal Music Composer
- Bärbel BauersfeldEditor
Details
- Release date
- March 9, 1973
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- German
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, History
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